H

Haemus, Mount, 42

Hahn, J. G. von, Albn. Märchen, 21, 57, 78, 85, 93, 313, 324, 326

Haltrich’s Transylvanian Tales (Volksmärchen), 22, 293, 309, 335

Hanauer, Folk Lore of the Holy Land, 219, 230, 331

Hare, The, and the frogs, 314;
race with the buffalo, 315;
and the pointer and setter, 317;
and the tom cat, 333

Harris, J. Rendel, 30;
Story of Ahikar, 356

Hart, The, and the making of the world (carol), 95

Hawk, The, and the young crows, 172;
hatred of the crow, 174

Heaven and hell, 111

Hebrew and the origin of languages, 13

Hedgehog, 64;
and the fox, 322, 323

Helias, 101

Hell, Creation of, 111

“Hell, The Harrowing of,” 101

Heresy and the Reynard cycle, 33;
of the tales, 39

Heresy-hunting in Greek Church, 50;
as a popular distraction, 55

Heretical myths, The Goths and, 49

Hero tales, 57

Heron, The, and the digging of wells, 176

Hesperides, The golden apples of, 248

Hills, The creation of, 65

Homiliary, The, 120

Hoopoe, The legend of the, 49;
and its greed, 160, 164;
and the cuckoo, 162, 164;
its ambition, 162, 166;
borrows the cuckoo’s tuft, 229;
Solomon’s gift of the tuft, 230;
and the Armenian’s horse, 288;
beliefs attached to its cry, 289

Hornet, The, curse on, 138, 139;
charm to make dogs savage, 140;
nest as sign of winter season, 140

Horse of St. George, 98

Horse, The, of the Sultan, 329

Horses, St. Peter’s, 76

Hound, The, and the fox, 290

Hungarian language, 18

Hungarians, 15

Huns, 15

Husband, The, under a spell, 237

Hymns, Greek (or Syriac), 48

Hypoderma bovis, 115